For much of this season, the Stanford women's attack consisted of Chiney Ogwumike's inside game and a healthy dose of three-pointers.

Arizona State took away the threes Friday night. Meanwhile, Stanford committed 17 turnovers and struggled to a 5-for-10 performance at the foul line.

So what? The Cardinal still drilled the second-place Sun Devils 61-35 at Maples Pavilion and can just about bank on taking a 14th straight regular-season conference title.

The sixth-ranked Cardinal (23-2, 12-1 Pac-12) lead the conference by three games with five to play, and Sunday's opponent is last-place Arizona. Indeed, they bounced back with a vengeance after Sunday's 87-82 loss at Washington.

"We get the wrath of the wounded beast coming in here," said ASU head coach Charli Turner Thorne, whose team dropped its second straight game and fell to 20-5 (9-4 in the conference).

The Cardinal said they weren't angry over the upset in Seattle, but were more focused and determined Friday.

"Defense is more competitive will," said Chiney Ogwumike, who scored 20 points on 10-for-12 shooting and had 13 rebounds in 27 minutes. "We just made a commitment to each other to play really hard defense and play every possession like it's the last possession."

In the loss to the Huskies, the Cardinal unloaded 41 three-point attempts and made nine of them. ASU guarded the perimeter so well that Stanford attempted only four triples and made none.

Against the Sun Devils' player-to-player defense, Stanford opted to go mainly to the unstoppable Ogwumike, and also used the slashing drives and pull-up jumpers of Amber Orrange.

"She took it upon herself to be the engine of the train," head coach Tara VanDerveer said of Orrange.

Orrange scored 14 points and had five steals. She matched ASU's total with 12 points in the first half. It was 32-12 at the break, and the game was essentially over.

No. 15 ASU missed its first 10 shots and wound up shooting 24 percent for the evening.

The Sun Devils' dozen points matched the all-time low by a Pac-12 opponent against Stanford in the first half. Washington had held that distinction by itself since Dec. 30, 2007.

Stanford has beaten the second-place team by 24 and 26 points, a point that might prompt some observers around the country to question the Pac-12.

"Let's remind them that Arizona State beat North Carolina, Miami, Syracuse and Cal," VanDerveer said.

She acknowledged that there's nothing she can do or say that will affect people's perceptions. "Honestly, the most important thing is that our team is healthy," she said. And it's getting better.